Great entertainment without gratuitous sex & gore

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2003)

Some reviewers whine that the writers of 28 Days Later were rehashing old fare: Omega Man and Resident Evil are mentioned. But let's face it: this movie and its ilk aren't intellectual and they aren't high art forms. They're all post-apocalyptic entertainment, and I must say, 28 Days Later... did a fine job of entertaining me. The excitment rose and fell, the lulls roused my anticpation and discomfort, the uncertainies were uncertain, the forbodings worried me, the monsters were ghoulish and believeably made up, there was just enough gore to make the necessary impression, profanity was moderated, the main characters drummed for my sympathy, and the bad guys understandably bad. And the ending, well, it was as proper as any. I might not buy the DVD, but I'd watch it again sometime on, say, HBO.